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Alcamenes

500 BC - 400 BC

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Alcamenes (Ancient Greek: Ἀλκαμένης) was an ancient Greek sculptor of Lemnos and Athens, who flourished in the 2nd half of the 5th century BC. He was a younger contemporary of Phidias and noted for the delicacy and finish of his works, among which a Hephaestus and an Aphrodite of the Gardens were conspicuous. Pausanias says that he was the author of one of the pediments of the temple of Zeus at Olympia, but this seems a chronological and stylistic impossibility. Pausanias also refers to a statue of Ares by Alcamenes that was erected on the Athenian agora, which some have related to the Ares Borghese. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alcamenes has received more than 52,446 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Alcamenes is the 43rd most popular sculptor (up from 44th in 2019), the 259th most popular biography from Greece (down from 251st in 2019) and the 8th most popular Greek Sculptor.

Alcamenes is most famous for being the sculptor of the statue of Zeus at Olympia.

Memorability Metrics

  • 52k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.45

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Alcamenes ranks 43 out of 258. Before him are Jean Tinguely, Louise Bourgeois, Ivan Meštrović, Józef Gosławski, César Manrique, and Magdalena Abakanowicz. After him are Veit Stoss, Claes Oldenburg, Naum Gabo, Tilman Riemenschneider, François Rude, and Chares of Lindos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 500 BC, Alcamenes ranks 26. Before him are Mnesikles, Polygnotus, Archelaus, Eubulides, Fan Li, and Parysatis. After him are Ajatashatru, Cratinus, Alcetas II of Macedon, Perdiccas II of Macedon, Psammuthes, and Parrhasius. Among people deceased in 400 BC, Alcamenes ranks 11. Before him are Zeuxis, Teos of Egypt, Leochares, Eubulides, Phaedo of Elis, and Parysatis. After him are Oxyartes, Crateuas of Macedon, Cephisodotus the Elder, Nausiphanes, Artakama, and Perictione.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Alcamenes ranks 259 out of 1,024. Before him are Matthew Kantakouzenos (1325), Agnodice (-400), Kyriakos Mitsotakis (1968), Philopoemen (-253), Georgios Papanikolaou (1883), and Jean Moréas (1856). After him are Agathon (-448), Conon of Samos (-280), Andocides (-440), Cynisca (-430), Lycophron (-320), and Rigas Feraios (1757).

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Among SCULPTORS In Greece

Among sculptors born in Greece, Alcamenes ranks 8. Before him are Myron (-500), Praxiteles (-395), Polykleitos (-450), Lysippos (-390), Scopas (-395), and Leochares (-400). After him are Chares of Lindos (-400), Ageladas (-600), Antenor (-590), Paeonius (-500), Silanion (-400), and Polykleitos the Younger (-400).

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